3 types of foreigners I don’t like in Japan

Hello and

welcome to my channel. My name's Daniel,

if you don't know who I am. Basically, I

talk about Japan and stuff, and I wanted

to talk about types of foreigners that I

don't like seeing in Japan, which is the

country I'm living in. Now, if you are a

foreigner and you're thinking of coming to

Japan and you match any of the

descriptions of foreigners I'm about to

give, Don't worry, you can still come to

Japan. I'm not saying that you should

never come here. I don't have any power.

I don't have any authority. I can't stop

anyone from coming here. If you want to

come here, then that's up to you. It's not

up to me. It's not my decision to make. I

have no authority. I'm just making this

video to, you know, just talk about

things. So when it comes to tourism in

Japan, there are different types of

foreign visitors that come to Japan. Not

all foreigners come to Japan for the same

reasons. Many people have different

interests. They like different aspects of

Japan. Some like the food, some like the

culture, some like the language, some like

the girls. There's nothing to be ashamed

about that. A lot of guys come to Japan

basically because Japanese girls are cute,

and I agree, but that video— this video

is not about that. Okay, so the first

types of foreigners that I don't like in

Japan are the ones who are obsessed with

the culture. They think, oh, Japanese

culture is so amazing, it's the best thing

in the world, they're so civilized, so

fantastic and mysterious, what an amazing

culture. These types of foreigners in

Japan are just kind of irritating, to be

honest. Yes, I'm not saying that Japanese

culture is a bad culture. It's one of the

best cultures in the world, the most

civilized. Yeah, I'm not going to say that

there's anything wrong with Japanese

culture, but at the end of the day, it's

just a culture. There's nothing special

about it. Yeah, it's slightly better than

other cultures, but then in other ways

it's also slightly worse than other

cultures in the world. But then you get

these foreigners who come to Japan and

they idolize Japanese culture, and they're

like, oh wow, Japanese culture is so

perfect, when that's far from the truth.

There's many things about Japanese culture

which aren't very good and don't really

make much sense. There's plenty of

examples. For example, the culture of

overworking themselves to the point of

croaking out. The fact that they need

women-only carriages on the trains is kind

of indicative of how perverted some or a

lot of the men in Japanese society can be.

Also, the way they idolize, um, female

high school students is very weird and a

little bit sick and twisted if you're

coming from a Western perspective. I think

Japan is the only country where you'll get

hordes of 40-year-old single men going to

live concerts of very, very young girls,

girl groups dancing around in school

uniforms wearing very short skirts. It's a

little bit weird. It's just really creepy

when you have crowds and crowds of

40-year-old men, middle-aged men cheering

on groups of very young girls who are

dressed up as students. It's a little bit

If this was England and you were a 40 or a

30-year-old man and then you actually

liked girl groups like Spice Girls or

Atomic Kitten, you would be the

laughingstock of the village. But here in

Japan, it's perfectly normal. For example,

you have these girl groups like AKB48 who

used to be very popular. I don't know if

they're that popular anymore, but when you

see their live concerts on TV and then you

look at the audience, the audience is

completely 100% men. Not young men,

middle-aged, old men, and it's just weird.

Japanese culture can be good, can be

great, but it's not perfect, and there's a

lot of weird, wrong, sick things,

um, about the culture that I think should

be changed. Yes, I agree, it's an

interesting culture, especially if you're

from the West, but at the end of the day,

fundamentally, it's just a culture, just

like any other culture. You, you say

please and you say thank you and you, you

be polite. People are polite to each other

and, you know, respect strangers. It's the

same all over the world. The most

irritating types of foreigners when it

comes to culture are those elitist,

snobbish foreigners who come to Japan and

they've watched 100,000 animes and they've

read all the books and they think they,

they know all about Japanese culture and

they look down on other foreigners. They

say stuff like, oh, don't you know

anything about Japanese culture? Didn't

you know you're not supposed to stick

chopsticks into your rice? Didn't you know

you're supposed to do this and do that?

Shut up! No one cares. Yeah, yeah, well

done wasting half your life watching

anime. Well done, congratulations, you

know more about Japanese culture than I

do. Big whoop. At the end of the day, no

one cares about how much culture or how

much knowledge you have about Japan.

You're just irritating. Okay, so the

second type of foreigner that I dislike in

Japan are the language— Japanese language

elitists. So first we had the culture

elitists, now we have the bloody language

elitists. And let me tell you about the

language— Japanese language elitists.

They think they're hot stuff because they

know Japanese and they passed level 2 JLPT

or level 1 JLPT test, proficiency test,

and they think they're so much better than

everyone else. They're like, oh, look at

me, I speak Japanese, I can pronounce

things You're not pronouncing konnichiwa

properly. It's not konnichiwa, it's

konnichiwa. Shut up, no one cares. I hate

it when I'm having an English conversation

and then I use a Japanese word like

karaoke or sushi or Osaka,

and then they say, how come you're not

pronouncing it properly? I thought you

passed level 2 JLPT. It's not Osaka, it's

Osaka. It's not karaoke, it's karaoke.

It's so annoying. Yeah, I know how to

pronounce those words, but when I'm

talking in English, I pronounce Japanese

foreign words in the same way that English

people pronounce them when they're

speaking in English. Because when I'm

speaking in English, it's perfectly okay

to pronounce foreign words in the way that

an English speaker would pronounce them.

If I'm speaking in Japanese, then

obviously I would pronounce Japanese words

in the Japanese way, but when I'm speaking

in English, I prefer to pronounce things

in the English way, even if they are

foreign words. It's also kind of annoying

when people say that you should learn

Japanese before you come to Japan when

That's not true at all. You really don't

need to learn any Japanese at all if

you're thinking of coming to Japan. Some

people say, oh, I'm thinking about going

to Japan, but I'm, I'm not sure because I

don't know any Japanese and people might

not speak English. And it's true, in

general most Japanese people don't know

how to speak English. But then if you

think about it, I've been living in Japan

for over a year and I barely talk to

anyone ever. You really don't need to know

how to speak Japanese. If you ever get

lost, Open up Google Maps. There's Wi-Fi,

free Wi-Fi anywhere, and you can easily

get a pocket Wi-Fi and then have it

delivered to the airport so you can pick

it up. And then when you have Google, you

can basically survive. Just if you need to

know something, you don't have to ask

anyone anything. Just open Google, ask

Google. And if you really desperately need

to ask a Japanese person something in

Japanese, use Google Translate. It's not

difficult. It's really annoying when you

get those people, foreigners and Japanese

people included, who say things stupid

things like, even if you're going to Japan

just for a few weeks, you should at least

learn how to say simple things like hello

and thank you and good morning. Why?

You shouldn't have to learn anything. Any

Japanese person is going to understand

simple words like hello and thank you and

good morning. I think it's so silly to

expect people who are just traveling to a

country— it's just silly to expect them to

learn a language. When they're only going

to be there for a short time. You can't

expect people who travel to learn 10 words

of every language of every country that

they're going to. I've been to a lot of

countries. I've been to Vietnam, France,

Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, South

Korea. Did I learn all of those languages?

No, I don't know a single word of

Vietnamese. I don't know how to say a

single word in French. Am I bothered? Do I

care? No, because it doesn't matter.

Okay, so lastly, finally, last but

not least, the final third type of

foreigner that I absolutely despise in

Japan are the ones who are constantly

complaining about racism in Japan.

It's usually a certain type of person,

you know, the kind of person who likes to

victimize themselves, and they're always

like, Oh, poor me, poor me, I'm being

racially abused. It's just absolutely

ridiculous. They start getting all

paranoid. They start getting all

paranoid. They start thinking, oh, I'm

being racially abused again. Oh, they—

that person's not sitting next to me on

the train because of my skin color and

he's a racist. Oh, come on, maybe you just

smell really bad. Maybe your face just

looks really scary. They start making up

all of these excuses and start trying to

blame it on racism. Oh, I didn't get the

job because they must be racist. Oh, I

phoned up an escort girl company and they

hung up the phone straight away as soon as

I spoke in English. They must be racist.

Yeah, okay, there could be a small

possibility that they are racist, but

there's also a possibility that they're

not racist and you're just being stupid.

I really don't understand how there's so

many Foreigners who live in Japan and they

complain about racism all the time. I've

lived in Japan for over a year and there

hasn't been a single incident where I've

experienced racism. I just don't think

that racism happens that often in Japan as

a foreigner. Maybe it's different for me.

Maybe I'm a special case. Maybe I've just

been lucky. Maybe I haven't experienced

any racism because I don't know.

Maybe I smell good. I'm not saying that

racism never happens in Japan. It's just

that I feel like certain people are

exaggerating a little bit. So those

were 3 types of foreigners that I dislike

seeing in Japan. Hope you enjoyed that.

Let me know what you're having for dinner,

and I'll be going back to playing Rainbow

Six on my MSI gaming laptop.